Happy Halloween!!

Sorry it's taken so long for me to blog again. Work has been a bear!! And to make it worse, I have to start night shift next Sunday night until they hire a new night shift RN. It could be 6 days or 6 months.......

Saturday was a great day for a run. I enjoyed running with old and new faces. My weekends aren't complete until I go stretch everything out at Heather's yoga class. For those of you my age, you might remember the children's toy "Stretch Armstrong". That's kind how I feel after class, but boy do I feel better. I was in the clinic today showing the other nursing staff some of my yoga stretches, and they were yelling at me at how difficult they were. Heh, heh.....not to long ago, I wanted beat Heather, now I can't wait to see her on Sunday afternoons...........

Yesterday when I got home from yoga, I decided then would be a good time to clean out the gutters before it got dark. Remember one of my first blogs when I fell through the roof and everything went in slow mo in a deep bass voice yelling oooooooooooohhhhhh noooooooooooo! Well part two: ladder came out from under me and down I plummeted. Lucky for me it was the back yard grass and the fact that I have some 'cushioning' around my petite frame. I laid there for a second and realized that yes, I was stll alive and no, nothing was hurting too bad, so I got up and finished the gutters (with my son Chris holding the ladder this time.....)

I guess when you look at it, I should be pretty thankful for my large frame. I've been in car accidents and other such mishaps where the medical personnel would tell me a smaller individual would have broken or crushed something. It still gets a little discouraging to see people pass me on the running trails, but I have to keep telling myself, hey! how many 6'3", 275 pound men are out here pullin down 8 miles? Not to many by my count.

Maybe if this running thing begins to catch on, one day I too will be 5'8" and 175 pounds like the normal male runner (when I'm 106 or 107........ :-)